Posts Tagged 'Happy Father’s Day'

Want to pay Dad back for all those years of raising you right? Well, too bad because there’s no way you have that much cash on hand. Instead, you can give him some of these fatherly awards to celebrate all his greatest moments in dad-ing. Want to let him know his repair skills haven’t gone unnoticed? Give Dad a “Never used duct tape on an actual duct!” award. For his phenomenal work in flatulence, Dad’s rightfully earned a “Farts Even When Finger Isn’t Pulled” badge. He won’t be able to wait to show off his most notable achievements in fatherhood.

June 12, 2013 — Performing experiments in a river in Trinidad, a team of evolutionary biologists has found that male guppies continue to reproduce for at least ten months after they die, living on as stored sperm in females, who have much longer lifespans (two years) than males (three-four months). Reznick explained that male guppies are brightly colored and very variable in coloration. Females prefer males with rare color patterns. A dead male with a long-lost color pattern can later give birth to a son who can now be preferred by females because he is different from all other males in the population. Because some females live so long, those sons can appear more than two generations after the father’s death.

Mental_floss presents a list of the 5 worst fathers of the animal kingdom. The bad dads are – Lions, Grizzly Bears, Bass, Sand Goby and Assassin Bug. The article details why these five made the list, but it is mostly is about eating the youngsters.